Casting Scoops: 'Numb3rs,' 'NCIS,' 'Scrubs,' and more!

Anyone in the mood for some exclusive casting scoop? No? Too bad, it’s already been written and pasted below.

* Arrested Development’s Tony Hale will guest star in an October episode of Numb3rs as an erratically brilliant biotech professor with some interesting ethical notions.

* Two and a Half Men has tapped Annie Potts to play Judith’s (Marin Hinkle) fresh-out-of-rehab mother in an episode airing Oct. 5.

* Windell Middlebrooks (The Suite Life on Deck) is checking into Scrubs as one of the med school’s two security guards.

* NCIS is casting the potentially recurring role of Agent Ruiz, an attractive, athletic, and competent federal agent in her late 20s to mid 30s who tends to put her foot in her mouth. Got casting tips? Post ‘em below!